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Thomas Heise (22 August 1955 – 29 May 2024) was a German documentary filmmaker.
Life and work
Heise was born in East Berlin on 22 August 1955, the son of philosophy professor Wolfgang Heise. He was a printer's apprentice between 1971 and 1973. After a year in the National People's Army, Heise worked as a director's assistant between 1975 and 1978 in East Germany's DEFA Film Studios, finishing his final exams at night school. In 1978 he studied to be a director at the Konrad Wolf Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen. Following his first film, Why make a film about these people (Wozu denn über diese Leute einen Film?), about the culture of East Berlin before the wall came down, he broke off his studies, and began to work as a freelance writer and director. All of his early documentary films were banned or prohibited from screening by the East German government, as well as his radio works.
In December 1989, four weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, his radio feature Widerstand und Anpassung - Überlebensstrategie. Erinnerungen eines Mannes an das Lager Dachau (Resistance and Adaptation - Survival Strategies. Memories of a Man of the Dachau Camp) was finally broadcast on Berlin radio.
After the fall of the Wall, Heise finally became known, creating a number of disputed works, on topics affecting his country, such as the radical right-winged youth movement in Halle. Between 1993 and 1998 he directed a number of theater works, until in 2005 his film Mein Bruder. We Will Meet Again premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2005. Heise continued to live and work in Berlin and as a film professor at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 2007.
In 2019, he created a documentary film entitled Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit (Heimat is a Space in Time), that won the main award from Nyon's reputable Visions du Réel. and won the main prize at the Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote.
Heise died on 29 May 2024, at the age of 68.
Filmography
1980: Wozu denn über diese Leute einen Film? (Why Make a Film About These People?), 33 min
1981: Anka und… [never completed]
1982: Erfinder 82
1984: Das Haus / 1984 (state documentary of the former East German Republic)
1985: Volkspolizei 1985 (state documentary of the former East German Republic)
1987: Heiner Müller 1
1989: 4. November 1989
1989–1990: Imbiß-Spezial
1989–1990: Zuchthaus Brandenburg, Dezember 1989
1991: Eisenzeit
1992: STAU - Jetzt geht's los
1997: Barluschke
1999–2000: Neustadt (Stau - Der Stand der Dinge)
2000: Meine Kneipe
2002: Vaterland
2004–2005: Mein Bruder - We'll Meet Again
1999–2006: Im Glück (Neger)
2007: Kinder. Wie die Zeit vergeht
2009: Material
2011: Sonnensystem
2012: Die Lage
2012: Gegenwart
2014: Städtebewohner
2019: Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit
Sources
External links
Thomas Heise at IMDb
Official homepage
Biography
Biography on kinoreal.at
Thomas Heise in the German National Library catalogue
Stefan Reinecke: taz-Interview with Thomas Heise about his film Mein Bruder - We'll meet again In: Die Tageszeitung, 17 February 2005.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- William Heise
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- Mexican Knife Duel
- Buffalo Bill (film 1894)
- The Kiss (film 1896)
- Dokumenter Terbaik (Penghargaan Film Eropa)
- The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)
- Annie Oakley (film 1894)
- Pajak minuman gula
- Thomas Heise
- Tom Schilling
- American Psycho
- Deaths in May 2024
- 74th Berlin International Film Festival
- Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
- Mahmoud Al-Zein
- List of German film directors
- The Kiss (1896 film)
- Urban fiction
